SSA Session: "New Directions in Environmental, Seismic Hazard and Mineral Resource Exploration Studies"

[Persaud, Patricia - (ppersaud)]

Dear Colleagues,

We want to draw your attention to our 2025 SSA Annual Meeting session:

New Directions in Environmental, Seismic Hazard and Mineral Resource Exploration Studies

Our session focuses on new approaches for collecting high-resolution geophysical and geological datasets and advances in methodologies that allow us to image the subsurface at increasingly higher resolution. We aim to gather contributions showcasing emerging topics including the application of dense seismic arrays and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). We invite submissions on potential unidentified hazards and environmental impacts in well-researched and in understudied geographic areas. Such studies create new avenues for interdisciplinary research, enabling geoscientists, engineers, and environmental scientists to collaborate and integrate findings across fields. 

We encourage submissions from early-career researchers, cross-disciplinary approaches, and studies using innovative methodologies such as machine learning. Advances in time-lapse imaging and event detection provide new opportunities for monitoring underground storage sites, changes in aquifer systems, and fault zone properties over time. These advances are key for improving community preparedness and resilience.

Please consider submitting your abstract to our session before the deadline on January 8, 2025.
https://meetings.seismosoc.org/submit/  

Conveners
Chiara Nardoni (University of Bologna)
Xin Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Valeria Villa (California Institute of Technology)
Md Mohimanul Islam (University of Missouri)
Claire Doody (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Shujuan Mao (University of Texas at Austin)
Patricia Persaud (University of Arizona)

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore.

Best regards,
Patricia on behalf of the conveners 

[Persaud, Patricia - (ppersaud)]

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the SCEC Workshop: Multi-Scale Seismic Velocity Models for the San Andreas Fault System in the Western US, which will be held from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm PT on April 4, 2025.

SUMMARY: At this workshop, we will plan a coordinated research approach to develop multiscale Vp and Vs models for the western US that can be used for simulations of realistic ground motion to frequencies of interest to engineers (e.g. 5-10 Hz), and to support a range of additional studies. Additional key discussion topics include IT tools needed to maintain, access, use, and visualize the velocity models, criteria for incorporating updates into the community models, and practical pathways for following up on recommendations developed in the workshop.

Session 1: Current Seismic Velocity Models for the SAFS in the Western US
Session 2: Methods to Combine and Evaluate Velocity Models
Session 3: Tools for Using Models

This virtual workshop is open to anyone interested in contributing to the community discussion on Multi-Scale Seismic Velocity Models for the San Andreas Fault System in the Western US.

For the detailed agenda and to register, please visit:
https://www.scec.org/events/2025-SCEC-CVM-Workshop

Please feel free to forward this message to interested students and colleagues, and to contact us directly with questions. 

We hope to see you at the workshop on April 4!

Workshop energizers,
Patricia Persaud, Kim Olsen, Artie Rogers, Phil Maechling, and Yehuda Ben-Zion